Steve Bissette Working On A Book About Alan Moore, Asks People To Publish His 1963 Stories Online For Free

Since they will never, ever be reprinted in an authorized edition in my lifetime, I hearby note that if anyone out there wants to post (with proper copyright and trademark citation) the stories that were in part my work on 1963 (except for Johnny Beyond™, which is not mine to do any more with than cite), they may—but be SURE you’ve properly cited the work, and update the trademarks accordingly:

There, now. Cut and paste that into place, and be sure the shared copyright on those three stories with Alan and our collaborative partners are in place, too.

Okay Steve, we’ll see what we can do. He also tells us;

And as of January 2012, Alan made it abundantly clear nothing will ever be done with them, either, on his watch—so, party’s over on that trio of works.

It sucks for our creative partners—Dave Gibbons, John Totleben, Chester Brown, and the colorists (Anthony Tollin) and respective letterers—and I’d be gobsmacked if Rick and Alan ever did anything with their part of it all, but that’s their business, no longer any of mine (except where my clutch of properties come into play, which ipso facto defuses anything happening). If they ever do, nobody will be happier than me about it; no sour grapes there.

FYI, This emerges from my work on my own forthcoming Alan Moore book; since I own my pencils, and articles on any of our work is fair game for any party out there, I’m running a few articles (by others) in my book, and illustrating them with my sketches and pencils, which is fair enough under the terms of our agreements, I reckon. If not, I’ll hear about it soon enough.